Best Movies of 1995
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Se7enRain, rot and a box: Fincher's procedural commits to its nihilism and never blinks at the end.Read the review
The Usual SuspectsA magic trick with a bulletin board, and knowing the ending only makes the construction more impressive.
La HaineA day in the banlieue shot like a countdown, as funny as it is furious, and three decades on it has not dated at all.
Toy StoryThe first fully computer animated feature is also a tight, mean, genuinely funny buddy comedy about being replaced.
CasinoScorsese runs the same engine as Goodfellas at twice the scale, and the machinery is more interesting than the people driving it.
Before SunriseTwo strangers talk through one night in Vienna, and Linklater makes the talking itself the romance, earnest and callow in exactly the right proportions.
HeatThe downtown shootout is the best gunfight ever filmed; the domestic subplots around it sprawl.
Die Hard with a VengeanceSamuel L. Jackson and a great two act puzzle, undone by a third act that belongs to a different film.
Bad BoysTwo stars inventing a rapport on the spot while the plot idles behind them.
The Quick and the DeadRaimi's visual mischief is worth the ticket even when a shootout bracket keeps standing in for a story.